326 Mr. ciieston’s Account of an 
furfacein a very diftinft manner. On the left fide there 
ftill remained an evident fullnefs, which pulhed the inte- 
guments forwards to the fize of two lifts, and which con- 
tained a fluid in confiderable quantity* 
The thigh ftill continued in the fame pofition and 
©edematous ftate before defcribed, fo that from thofe cir- 
cumftances, and the diftenfion of the abdomen, nothing 
particular could be obferved externally, at the lower part 
of the abdomen, on the right fide more than on the left. 
Upon examining the cavity the inteftines prefented 
themfelves nearly in their natural fituation : their ap- 
pearance was found, but in general they were much in- 
flated. The tumor on the left fide proved to be the blad- 
der diftended with urine, flightly adhering to the peri- 
toneum; and this, together with the colon palling on to 
its termination in the rectum, filled up the iliac region 
on that fide, while the right fide, and indeed more than 
half the pelvis, was fully occupied by a confufed irre- 
gular mafs, feemingly formed of fcirrhous cartilage, 
bone, and ftone. 
As a large cartilaginous fubftance <a) arifing from this- 
mafs feemed to cover the bodies of the vertebrae, I re- 
moved the inteftines, and purfuing this lingular appear- 
(a) This fubftance, when firfb taken out of the body, appeared cartilagi- 
nous; but when dried was perfect- bone, 
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